The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-30

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Senger.
AS to cranks, they are of two kinds
those made morbid by compassion for
others and those made morbid by an
excessive regard for themselves. A
gigantic ego is the usual impelling mo-
| tive of the cranks that hate, denounce
and destroy. These are the cranks to
be feared and opposed. Not the other
kind.--Jdmes Parton.
WITHOUT doubt the general feeling
among the straight republicans is in
favor of Blaine. The same feeling
also appears to exist in New York
state, for gentleman who has wide in
formation from many parts of that
state reports that the popularity of
Blaine is great all through the country
part of the ate.-Boston Letter to
Worcester Spy
SOME of the opponents of Mr.. Blaine
are endeavoring to induce the republic
can national convention to select New
York city as the place for holding the
national convention Their theory is
that it is desirable to locate their con-
vention where the local influence
will not be in favor of Blaine, as it
is in some western cities. Washington
Special to Boston Journal.
BEFORE any farmer leaves his COM
Portable northern home and the friends
and associates of lifetime, thinking to
find better spot South or West, let
him take his wife and make a trip to
the land of promise and look the coun-
try over before selling out. A woman's
intuition and judgment at sight is more
generally correct and reliable than that
of man.-Boston CultiUdtor.
As to the effect of the election upon
President Cleveland, in my judgment
it insures him a unanimous nomination
by the democratic national conven-
ton. AS for Mr.. Blaine, the election
demonstrates that he is a stronger man
in the state of New York than any re-
publican the party has put in nomina-
ton since the last presidential cleo
tion.-Editor For of Washington Ma
tional Republican.
THE legend about full republican
vote on fair day in New York at
last is exploded. In 1884, on a stormy
day, republicans came within 1000
votes of winning. On perfect day in
1887 they lag behind to the tune of 90
900. The failure in both cases to win
must be attributed to those very Pc
culiar temperance people who think
the way to aid temperance is to help its
enemies. Boston Trdueller.
OK the Fourth of July last the Rev.
DIR. Bacon of the Independent Presby-
terrain church at Savannah, Georgia. in
his sermon declared that it was sad
blow for the South when Abraham
Lincoln was struck down. This pa
triotic utterance provoked the enmity
OF his congregation and an attempt to
drive him from his pulpit followed.
That attempt succeeded last week. An
election was held and DR.. Bacon was
dismissed.
THE humble and lamb-like mug
wumps are licking the hand of the
president who has chastised them.
They are still clarifying Mr.. Cleve-
land. For the first time in their his
tory these pestiferous politicians have
found master. They are illustrating
the bitter bitten. and, after their nature,
they fawn on the hand that has smitten
them. Cleveland has turned out to be
bully enough to bully the mugwumps.
These dictators who made him presi-
dent now feel that they have mas
ter.-Mad and Express.
THE incidents preceding the execu-
ton of the Chicago murderers teach
the lesson that the sooner we adopt a
| different treatment of condemned MUIR
derers the better. When the sentence
of death is once pronounced they should
be henceforth dead to the public.
There should be no receptions allowed,
no interviews with newspaper reporters.
They might, under certain restrictions,
be permitted to see their counsel and
members of their families, but all such
privileges should end with counsel and
families.-BoSton Traveller.
PEOPLE are ever ready to give the
newspapers information of scandal,
crime and all forms of sin, and show a
keener relish and more earnest desire
to put reporters on the track of such
news than to give them facts about
the good things that men have done
except what they have themselves done.
So long as the public claims to know
who has gone wrong and is Indifferent
as to who has done right it cannot
fairly claim the right to criticise the
press for telling of the evil along with
the good.-Sprinafeld Union.
THE fall in prices due to the estab-
lishment of the single gold standard
has come to an end. The debtors who
suffered by it have suffered all that
they can suffer, and the debts now in
course of contraction are contracted
upon basis which is not likely to vary
much for the next few years. To do
now what Mr.. Bland proposed to do in
1876 would work as much injustice to
creditors as the rejection of his PROPOSE
ton worked then to debtors. The
world of business has got accustomed
to the gold standard and is getting on
with it very comfortably both here and
abroad. Sun.
THE declaration of the Woman's